Hmm interesting. I’ve been reading for years he is very much interested in Islam. Frankly I don’t like your prince. I think the whole Diana bit was very sad & he should have married his Camilla. Even had he had to give up being King like his Great Uncle...I hope he is never King & one of his sons is chosen instead. I do hope the wedding is lovely & there are no terror attacks.
Is he interested in Islam? Yes, he is. He will, if he becomes King, be the Head of a Commonwealth that contains around 200 million Muslims. He will also be King directly over millions of Muslim citizens of the Commonwealth Realms. He is interested in their faith, just as he is interested in Hinduism, Judaism, and Buddhism, and other faiths as well, despite being a Christian himself.
He despises terrorism and extremism in all its forms - but the man he was closest to, outside of his immediate family, his Godfather and mentor until adulthood, was brutally assassinated along with two children and an 83 year old woman by terrorists who called themselves Roman Catholics. In his lifetime, he has also seen crimes committed in parts of the Commonwealth by terrorists who call themselves Hindus, and terrorists who have claimed to be serving a variety of religious causes. He makes a distinction between those who follow a religion peacefully, and those who use it as an excuse for murder.
Should he have married Camilla? If he had done so in the 1970s, it would have involved him failing to do his duty. It also would have, incidentally, placed the burden of being Heir to the Throne on his brother, Andrew, who was still a child. He chose to put his country above his personal desires, and he chose not to saddle his brother with a task he would not face himself.
When he married Diana, they were in love - but, yes, that didn’t last. That wasn’t just his fault and it was a tragedy for all involved, but he - and she - entered that marriage intending to make it work.
Charles will take the throne if he is still capable of doing so when the time comes, because, again, he will not force that duty onto his son, William, any sooner than it is necessary. His own life has constantly been one where he has been expected to put duty above all else, including his own happiness, and he won’t force that on anybody else if he can avoid it. And there’s no ‘choosing’ in it - the law doesn’t allow for choice. He will become King the instant his mother dies. He could choose then to abdicate in favour of his son - and at some stage in the future, if he was so infirm, and William was ready, perhaps he might do so.
You don’t have to like him. Nobody has to like him, anymore than they have to like anybody else. But it would be nice if people criticised him and disliked him based on who he is, and what he does, rather than what the media says he is and what he’s done.
They’ll show every single time he visits a Mosque - they don’t show most of the, far more common occasions, when he visits military bases to see serving soldiers. They’ll publicise every single speech when he mentions the word ‘Islam’ - but they’ll hardly ever publicise those speeches where he speaks to veteran’s groups.
And because of his role, he is not even supposed to defend himself against their bias. The crown cannot seek to silence a free press after all. Well, I’m under no such restriction.
The man I know is a man who has spent his entire life utterly dedicated to one task - to serve his country and the Commonwealth in a role he was never asked if he wanted, but was simply told it was his duty to undertake. If he’d had his own choice, he’d have tried to be an artist, or an actor, or perhaps an architect. Instead he chose duty.